Alvarado Gutierrez, Mabel2014-04-112014-04-112012-01-09Mabel Alvarado. "Discovery of the genus Meggoleus Townes, 1971 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae) in Peru, with the description of two new species." 2012. ZooKeys 163:83-90. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.163.22911313-29701313-2989https://hdl.handle.net/1808/13450The genus Meggoleus Townes, 1971 (Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae) currently comprises two species, one from Brazil and one from Gabon. The genus is recorded from Peru for the first time, with a range extension of the type species, Meggoleus spirator Townes, 1971, and the discovery of two new species – Meggoleus fuscatus sp. n. and Meggoleus pampahermosensis sp. n. A key to the world’s species is provided.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Ichneumonidaetaxonomynew speciesPeruNeotropical regionSouth AmericaArticle10.3897/zookeys.163.2291openAccess